now
From lubridate v1.5.6
by Vitalie Spinu
The current time
The current time
Usage
now(tzone = "")Arguments
- tzone
- a character vector specifying which time zone you would like the current time in. tzone defaults to your computer's system timezone. You can retrieve the current time in the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) with now("UTC").
Value
-
the current date and time as a POSIXct object
See Also
Examples
now()
now("GMT")
now("")
now() == now() # would be true if computer processed both at the same instant
now() < now() # TRUE
now() > now() # FALSE
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